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{
"id":"jshist",
"title":"A little history of JavaScript",
"description":"Mainly, showing the emergence of different JS libraries.",
"focus_date":"1996-07-01 12:00:00",
"timezone":"-07:00",
"initial_zoom":"37",
"events":[


{
"id":"jshist-self",
"title": "Self",
"description":"Self, one of the inspirations for Javascript's simplicity, is created at Xerox PARC ",
"startdate": "1986-01-01 12:00:00",
"importance":"40",
"date_display":"none",
"icon":"flag_green.png"
},


{
"id":"jshist-whatwg",
"title": "WHATWG Founded",
"description":"The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) is a community of people interested in evolving HTML and related technologies. The WHATWG was founded by individuals from Apple, the Mozilla Foundation and Opera Software in 2004.",
"startdate": "2004-06-04 12:00:00",
"importance":"40",
"link":"http://www.whatwg.org/",
"icon":"square_blue.png"
},




{
"id":"jshist-dhtml",
"title": "DHTML in IE 4",
"description":"Basic DHTML support was introduced with Internet Explorer 4.0, although there was a basic dynamic system with Netscape Navigator 4.0. When it originally became widespread DHTML style techniques were difficult to develop and debug due to varying degrees of support among web browsers of the technologies involved. Development became easier when Internet Explorer 5.0+, Mozilla Firefox 2.0+, and Opera 7.0+ adopted a shared Document Object Model.",
"startdate": "1997-09-01 12:00:00",
"importance":"45",
"link":"http://www.whatwg.org/",
"icon":"square_gray.png"
},



{
"id":"jshist-cba",
"title": "Cross-Browser Animation",
"description":"by Dave Thau and Apple Developer Connection: Dynamic HTML (DHTML) provides a new range of ways to animate a page. DHTML can animate both text and images and animations can move throughout the browser window, instead of being anchored in one spot. Unfortunately, DHTML can be tricky because of differences between browsers.",
"startdate": "2002-05-24 12:00:00",
"importance":"32",
"link":"http://oreilly.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/05/24/animation.html",
"icon":"quote.png"
},





{
"id":"jshist-06",
"title": "Prototype JS",
"description":"The Prototype JavaScript Framework is a JavaScript framework created by Sam Stephenson in February 2005 as part of the foundation for Ajax support in Ruby on Rails. It is implemented as a single file of JavaScript code, usually named prototype.js. Prototype is distributed standalone, but also as part of larger projects, such as Ruby on Rails, script.aculo.us and Rico.",
"startdate": "2005-02-01 12:00:00",
"enddate": "2005-02-01 12:00:00",
"importance":"40",
"image":"img/prototype.jpg",
"image_class":"above",
"icon":"triangle_green.png"
},


{
"id":"jshist-01",
"title": "Mocha - Live Script",
"description": "<img src='img/eich.jpg' style='float:left;margin-right:8px;margin-bottom:8px'>JavaScript was originally developed by Brendan Eich of Netscape under the name Mocha. LiveScript was the official name for the language when it first shipped in beta releases of Netscape Navigator 2.0 in September 1995",
"startdate": "1995-05-01 12:00:00",
"date_limit":"ho",
"link":"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript",
"importance":"40",
"icon":"flag_green.png"
},

{
"id":"jshist-02",
"title": "JavaScript",
"description": "LiveScript is Renamed JavaScript in a joint announcement with Netscape and Sun Microsystems",
"startdate": "1995-12-04 12:00:00",
"enddate": "1995-12-04 12:00:00",
"date_limit":"mo",
"link":"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript",
"importance":"55",
"date_limit":"ho",
"icon":"star_purple.png",
"image":"img/tests/js_thumb.jpg",
"image_class":"above"
},

{
"id":"jshist-14rhino",
"title": "Mozilla Rhino is started",
"description": "Very fast Javascript engine introduced",
"startdate": "1997-10-01 12:00:00",
"enddate": "1997-10-01 12:00:00",
"date_limit":"mo",
"link":"http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/history.html",
"importance":"35",
"icon":"square_gray.png"
},

{
"id":"jshist-resig-post",
"title": "Resig: ECMAScript Harmony",
"description": "There's been some turmoil in the world of ECMAScript.<br><br>While many are – even, at least, vaguely – familiar with the development of ECMAScript 4 the devil is in the details. I’ve blogged about ES4 extensively in the past – and even did a speaking tour last fall educating developers about its details and implementations, however, a lot has happened since that time.",
"startdate": "2008-08-14 12:00:00",
"enddate": "2008-08-14 12:00:00",
"date_limit":"da",
"link":"http://ejohn.org/blog/ecmascript-harmony/",
"importance":"30",
"icon":"quote.png"
},

{
"id":"jshist-jj-garrett",
"title": "Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications",
"description": "Seminal essay by Jesse James Garrett: 'An Ajax application eliminates the start-stop-start-stop nature of interaction on the Web by introducing an intermediary—an Ajax engine—between the user and the server. It seems like adding a layer to the application would make it less responsive, but the opposite is true.'",
"startdate": "2005-02-18 12:00:00",
"enddate": "2005-02-18 12:00:00",
"date_limit":"da",
"link":"http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/e000385",
"importance":"42",
"icon":"quote.png"
},



{
"id":"jshist-dry",
"title": "The Bad Rap Years",

"description": "Of Javascript's initial insinuation into browsers, WWW founder Robert Cailliau said, 'the programming-vacuum filled itself with the most horrible kluge in the history of computing: Javascript.' But now JS is 'hawt' and its clay-like flexibility makes it enjoyable, inspiring more artistry and cleverness than other languages.",
"startdate": "1998-01-01 12:00:00",
"enddate": "2004-01-01 12:00:00",
"date_limit":"mo",
"link":"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript",
"importance":"52",
"icon":"none"
},


{
"id":"jshist-03",
"title": "Microsoft JScript",
"description": "JScript added new date methods to fix the non-Y2K-friendly methods in JavaScript, which were based on java.util.Date. JScript was included in Internet Explorer 3.0.",
"startdate": "1996-08-01 12:00:00",
"enddate": "1996-08-01 12:00:00",
"date_limit":"mo",
"link":[
	{"url":"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JScript", "label":"wikipedia"},
	{"url":"http://nytimes.com", "label":"NYT"}],
"importance":"35",
"icon":"triangle_green.png"
},

{
"id":"jshist-04",
"title": "ECMAScript industry standard",
"description": "Netscape announced that it had submitted JavaScript to Ecma International for consideration as an industry standard, and subsequent work resulted in the standardized version named ECMAScript",
"startdate": "1997-06-01 12:00:00",
"enddate": "1997-06-01 12:00:00",
"date_limit":"mo",
"link":"http://www.ecmascript.org/",
"importance":"35",
"icon":"triangle_green.png"
},
{
"id":"jshist-05",
"title": "Dojo Toolkit",
"description": "Dojo Released",
"startdate": "2004-06-01 12:00:00",
"enddate": "2004-06-01 12:00:00",
"link":"http://dojotoolkit.org/",
"image":"img/dojo.jpg",
"image_class":"above",
"importance":"35",
"icon":"triangle_green.png"
},
{
"id":"jshist-08",
"title": "JSON",
"description": "Douglas Crockford was the first to specify and popularize the JSON format. JSON was used at State Software, a company co-founded by Crockford, starting around 2001. The JSON.org website was launched in 2002. In December 2005, Yahoo! began offering some of its web services in JSON.  Google started offering JSON feeds for its GData web protocol in December 2006.",
"startdate": "2005-12-01 12:00:00",
"enddate": "2005-12-01 12:00:00",
"date_limit":"mo",
"link":"http://json.org",
"importance":"35",
"icon":"triangle_green.png"
},
{
"id":"jshist-09",
"title": "jQuery",
"description": "Released in January 2006 at BarCamp NYC by John Resig",
"startdate": "2005-12-01 12:00:00",
"enddate": "2005-12-01 12:00:00",
"link":"http://jquery.com/",
"importance":"40",
"image":"img/jquery.jpg",
"image_class":"above",
"icon":"triangle_green.png"
},
{
"id":"jshist-16",
"title": "MooTools",
"description": "Valerio Proietti first authored the framework, taking as his inspiration Prototype and Dean Edward's base2. MooTools originated from Moo.fx, a popular plug-in Proietti produced for Prototype in October 2005, which is still maintained and used",
"startdate": "2006-09-01 12:00:00",
"enddate": "2006-09-01 12:00:00",
"date_limit":"mo",
"link":"http://mootools.net/",
"importance":"35",
"icon":"triangle_green.png"
},

{
"id":"jshist-17",
"title": "YUI",
"description": "Development on YUI began in 2005 and Yahoo! properties such as My Yahoo! and the Yahoo! front page began using YUI in the summer of that year. YUI was released for public use in February 2006.",
"startdate": "2006-02-01 12:00:00",
"enddate": "2006-02-01 12:00:00",
"date_limit":"mo",
"link":"http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/",
"importance":"35",
"icon":"triangle_green.png"
},

{
"id":"10things",
"title": "Ten Things I Learned About the jQuery Source",
"description": "Ten Things I Learned About the jQuery Source",
"startdate": "2010-06-13 11:39:00",
"link":"http://paulirish.com/2010/10-things-i-learned-from-the-jquery-source/",
"video":"http://player.vimeo.com/video/12529436",
"importance":"20",
"icon":"video.png"
},



{
"id":"jshist-18",
"title": "Google Web Toolkit",
"description": "Google Web Toolkit is an open source set of tools that allows web developers to create and maintain complex JavaScript front-end applications in Java. Other than a few native libraries, everything is Java source that can be built on any supported platform with the included GWT Ant build files.",
"startdate": "2006-05-17 12:00:00",
"enddate": "2006-05-17 12:00:00",
"date_limit":"mo",
"link":"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Web_Toolkit",
"importance":"35",
"icon":"triangle_green.png"
},



{
"id":"jshist-15",
"title": "ExtJS",
"description": "Ext.Ajax provided features such as global headers and parameters, cross library file uploads and global Ajax events.",
"startdate": "2007-08-02 12:00:00",
"enddate": "2007-08-02 12:00:00",
"date_limit":"mo",
"link":"http://www.sencha.com/products/js/",
"importance":"35",
"icon":"triangle_green.png"
},
{
"id":"jshist-14",
"title": "Google Chrome V8",
"description": "Very fast Javascript engine introduced",
"startdate": "2008-12-01 12:00:00",
"enddate": "2008-12-01 12:00:00",
"date_limit":"mo",
"link":"http://code.google.com/p/v8/",
"importance":"35",
"icon":"square_gray.png"
},

{
"id":"jshist-10",
"title": "CommonJS project",
"description": "The official JavaScript spec does not define a standard library that is useful for building a broader range of applications. The CommonJS API will fill that gap by defining APIs that handle many common application needs, ultimately providing a standard library as rich as those of Python, Ruby and Java.",
"startdate": "2009-01-01 12:00:00",
"enddate": "2009-01-01 12:00:00",
"link":"http://www.commonjs.org/",
"importance":"35",
"icon":"triangle_green.png"
},

{
"id":"jshist-11",
"title": "jQuery Mobile / 1.4.3",
"description": "Released at the Boston JQuery Conference",
"startdate": "2010-10-16 12:00:00",
"enddate": "2010-10-16 12:00:00",
"link":"http://www.jquerymobile.com",
"importance":"30",
"icon":"triangle_green.png"
},

{
"id":"jsconf2010",
"title": "JS Conf 2010",
"description": "The theme for JSConf US 2010 is 'Pirates' and we do intend on taking that to the limit. Already we have buried some treasure(.js) for a few lucky land lubbers. Everything you have seen, heard, or come to know of about JSConf is about to change once again. Prepare to cast away for an amazing time as the JavaScript community comes together once again in Washington, DC.",
"startdate": "2010-04-17 08:00:00",
"enddate": "2010-04-18 18:00:00",
"link":"http://jsconf.us/2010/",
"importance":"40",
"icon":"star_green.png",
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	"label":"JSConf 2010", 
	"latlong":"38.8969007, -77.0724308",
	"markers":[
		{
		"latlong":"38.8969007, -77.0724308",
		"icon":"http://timeglider.com/jquery/img/jsconf.png",
		"title":"JS Conf 2010, in Arlington/Washington DC",
		"zIndex":99
		 }
		]
	}
},
{
"id":"jsconf2011",
"title": "JS Conf 2011",
"description": "Portland, Oregon, at the Portland Art Museum. Highlights included Andrew Dupont's talk, 'Everything is Permitted: Extending Built-ins', doughnuts, and more.",
"startdate": "2011-05-02 08:00:00",
"enddate": "2011-05-03 18:00:00",
"link":"http://2011.jsconf.us/",
"importance":"40",
"icon":"star_green.png",
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	"label":"JSConf 2011", 
	"latlong":"45.51655690309638,-122.68299579620361",
	"markers":[
		{
		"latlong":"45.51655690309638, -122.68299579620361",
		"icon":"http://timeglider.com/jquery/img/jsconf.png",
		"title":"Portland Art Museum",
		"zIndex":99
		 }
		]
	}
}
],
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   {"title":"libraries", "icon":"triangle_green.png"},
   {"title":"engines", "icon":"square_gray.png"},
   {"title":"origins", "icon":"flag_green.png"},
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}
]